I tried to visit Talkin' Broadway's All That Chat just a few moments ago and received this message:
"Talkin Broadway is pleased to announce
ALL THAT CHAT has been purchased by
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Check your inbox. You should receive your subscription offer and 40% discount code in your email shortly!
Unfortunately, no free access to ALL THAT CHAT will be permitted to non-subscribers".
"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man
D'oh! I completely forgot what the date was! You are probably correct! Nice.
I should have seen that coming a mile away...let the April Fool-ishness begin.
"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man
I don't think this is a joke. And I'm very upset because I donated money to them so they could buy the software needed to prevent hackers from taking down the board. Now they have my money AND the money from The New York Times. What a scam!
I received nothing in my e-mail's inbox. Has anyone checked the website for The New York Times? Did they post a story about buying the popular message board? And did they just buy the "All That Chat" board or its parent website (TalkinBroadway.com)? I sure would like some answers!
Every year ATC gets loaded with April Fools Joke threads. Maybe its their way of not having to deal with all the pointless threads that would be created. The moderators always get annoyed on April Fools day with the amount of jokes.
I don't think the New York Times is in a financial position to buy anything right now, much less a niche message board that will offer virtually no revenue.
Calvin, you may be right. I used to work in publishing, and I forgot that newspaper companies are just about dead. I still think the moderators at "All That Chat" could have come up with a funnier joke. Why didn't they just say they were down for maintenance or an update to the site? Sounds kinda crazy to me!
It's an April Fool's Day joke. Anyone who has ever been on the board on APril FOols Day knows that the board is inendated with "joke" messages. I guarantee you today would have been filled with "SPIDERMAN wins the Pultizer" and "Patti Lupone to play the title role in new ANNIE revival" posts. Looks like they decided to take the day off and not deal with all the crap that makes the board completelu useless every April 1st.